Swinging table and ironing board



K May 24, 1932. H. c, scHRAG-E 1,859,719

SWINGING TABLE AND IRONING BOARD Filed March 9, 1931 Fig.

Patented May 24, 1932 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE HENRY C. SCHRAGE, OF WEST :POINT TOWNSHIP, BUTLER COUNTY, OWA, ASSIGNOR- 0F ONE-HALF T0 CHRIST H. RGGERT, OF ALLISON, IOWA SWINGING TABLE AND` IR'ONING BOARD vApplication led March 9, 1931. Serial No. 521,078.

My invention relates to improvements in combination tables, and the object of my improvement is to furnish a combination table and ironing board, arranged to be used together or in which the table may be employed after removal of the ironing board, and a further improvement is to support the table swingingly for convenient extension and retraction relative to an adjacent wall or other structure.

The above objects I have accomplished by the means which are hereinafter described and claimed, and which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the complete combination of table and ironing board as extended away from an associated supporting wall, with the table leaves also extended and supported for use. Fig. 2 is a top plan of the structures i of said Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is an elevation of the outer or free end of the table with leaves extended, but with the ironing board removed.

My invention is especially suited for installation and use where the floor space is of limited area, as in apartment buildings, or where it is desirable or necessary to have an appliance of this character which may be collapsibly retracted and contracted in volume when not in use.

The device comprises a table having a middle section 10, and an ironing board 17 removably associated therewith. The table may be used either with or without the drop leaves 18, which are hinged at 19 to the side edges of the table. Below the table section 10 and spaced therefrom are the parallel bars 14, also spaced from each other transversely, and held apart by blocks as at 16 spaced apart longitudinally, leaving gaps one of which is on each side traversed by a swinging arm 13 on a pivot-bolt, and which arm when swung outwardly, serves as a support for the leaf 18 on that side'when extended to have its top in the same plane as the table section.

The ironing board 17 has along the rear part of its under face a longitudinally disposed and rearwardly projecting member or slide 15 of a size and shapeto beslidingly fitted into the outer end gap between the bars l14 Y under the table 10, and is snugly mounted so as to remain in place under ordinary stresses.

The conical bolt-heads of the bolts 12 which secure the bars 16 to the under face of the table 10 are flush with the part 10, but preferably as shown the tops of the table and of the ironing board 17 have a thin covering layer 11 of wood or other suitable material in the same plane to supply an even smooth surface therefor.

' The table and associated ironing board maj7 be supported above and upon a floor and near to a wall to swing from a retracted position to an extended one, whether together or as a table only when the ironingV board is slidably removed from the outer and recessed seat provided for it as stated. I have adopted a base part 3 secured to a floor and socketed to hold a rotatable standard 1 on whose lower part is ixedly secured a Ycou pling 2 in whose inclined side nipple or sleeve an arm 4 of tubular metal is mounted and having at its upper outer end a T- coupling 9. On the upper end of the standard 1 is secured another T-coupling 8, and the Tparts of both couplings are mounted immediately beneath the table 10 to extend into the gaps between the table and the said bars 14, and restrained from displacements by the bolts 12.

The standard 1 is held erect by means of a circular sleeve-like bend 6 in a bracket bar 5 encompassing a fixed sleeve 7 on the standard, and in a groove of the sleeve 7, and the outwardly directed terminations of the bar 5 are fastened to the adjacent wall. Near 'one end of the bracket 5 a staple or eye 24 on the wall is mounted and receives an eye on a hook 23 Whose angular tip may be releasably engaged with any of holes 22 on an anglebar 21 fastened on an adjacent table-bar 14, to hold the table in an adjusted position of horizontal angular position relative to said wall.

This means for mounting and supporting the table is very strong, and the table when the board l17 is removed and the leaves 18 dropped may be retracted close to the wall and to occupy only a small space in a room.

Having described myl invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

l. In combination, a table having an elongated shape, bars beneath said table at each side spaced transversely and, rigidly connected at places to the table to leave side gaps therebetween, a rockable Hoor standard having an inclined forwardly and upwardly directed member, and said standard and member having at their upper ends lateral stems seated in said side gaps and between said bars, said table with said standard being adapted to swing laterally, and means for adjustably releasably anchoring said table in a desired angular position of swinging adjustment.

2. In combination, a swingingly mounted table, an ironing board mounted detachably on one end of the table in flush relation, a rockable fioor support for the table connected thereto, a bracket adapted to be fixedly secured to an adjacent wall, and having a terminal sleeve in which said support is loosely rockingly mounted, an apertured bracket on one side of the table, and a hook adapted to loosely hang on said wall for adjustable connection with any of the apertures on the table bracket to hold the 'table in a desired position of extension relatively to the wall.

In testimony whereof I aHiX my signature.

HENRY C. SCHRAGE. 

